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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Walking
with Cavemen 
See how far you can move up the evolutionary scale with the interactive Caveman
Challenge and learn how homo sapiens evolved at this site from the BBC. Science:
Science as Inquiry
Curriculum Standard 1a
Students will demonstrate an increasing understanding of how the scientific
enterprise operates.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to: -
Demonstrate an understanding that science knowledge has, over time, accumulated
most rapidly after acceptance of major new theories.
Curriculum Standard 2f
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand that progress
in science and technology is controlled by societal attitudes and beliefs.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to: -
Illustrate, through example, that the knowledge produced through science and
technology changes the way members of society think.
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Demonstrate, by giving examples, the relationships between the maintenance and
progress of society and scientific and technological advancement.
Science:
Life Science
Curriculum Standard 3a
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to recognize patterns and products
of evolution, including genetic variation, specialization, adaptation, and natural
selection.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade six students will be able to: - Classify
a variety of organisms based on their characteristics, and use this scheme as
a tool to organize information about the diversity of life forms.
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Describe/identify random differences between individuals of the same species
of plant or animal, e.g. students can examine parts of plants of the same species
and recognize variations, and can construct graphs and charts showing the variations.
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Collect data on inherited characteristics and use the data to explain how traits
are passed from generation to generation.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to: -
Explain how the characteristics of living things depends upon genes.
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Estimate the degree of kinship among organisms or species, e.g. from the similarity
of their DNA base-pair sequences, anatomy, physiology, or behavior.
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Construct a "timeline"
that depicts how life forms change over time as they interact in and with the
environment.
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Describe how genetic material is passed from parent to offspring during asexual
and sexual reproduction, e.g. mitosis, meiosis.
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Research a human genetic trait and trace its appearance/presence through a family
history and predict the inheritance patterns and probabilities through the next
generation.
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Explain how new genetic traits can arise and become established in a population,
e.g. mutation of DNA, new gene linkages, crossing over, etc.
Curriculum Standard 3d
Students will demonstrate an increasing ability to understand fundamental structures,
functions, and mechanisms of inheritance found in microorganisms, fungi, protists,
plants, and animals.
Proficiency
Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to: -
Explain, in general terms, the role DNA plays in controlling cell functions.
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